Coupling oe thills to axles



R. MORRISON.

Thin-Coupling.

Patented July 24, 1860- Wifn @95 5 I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT MORRISON, OF RAHWAY, NEW JERSEY.

COUPLING 0F Tl-IILLS T0 AXLES.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 29,294, dated July 24, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT MORRISON, of Rahway, in the county of Middlesex and State of New Jersey, have invented an Improvement in Attaching Shafts to Carriages, and that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the principle or character which distinguishes it from all other things before known and of the usual manner of making, modifying, and using the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1, is a perspective view of the whole attachment, Fig. 2, a longitudinal section.

My invention consists in an improved mode of attaching carriage shafts to the clips described and represented as follows:

Upon the end of the shaft i I fix a swivel loop 6 by means of a screw bolt 6 which passes through an eye in the end of the shaft and eyes in the ends of the arms of the loop 6 as clearly shown in the drawings. Across the end of the clip a, is a concavity in which the eye of the shaft is placed and underneath the clip is a'spring latch c which is confined within a groove by means of the screw bolt n. The end of the spring which bears the latch or catch at projects sufliciently to hold the loop I) and the end of the 

